News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-03
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
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DR.. Kate I. Kelsey holds the Office of
City Physician in Menomonee, Wis.
There are six women students in the
collegiate course of Columbia College.
Very becoming face wells are of large
meshed Russian net with a scalloped
edge.
Two sisters in Washington bear the
names of Desire Moore and Plenty
Moore.
There are seven women in Illinois who
are acting as County Superintendent of
public schools.
Chains of knotted cords furnish por
ton of the trimming of some of the
newly-imported wraps.
A woman worker in a Kalamazoo
cooper shop makes as many barrels a day
as any man in the shop.
Corsage bouquets of large size have
lost favor. two or three long stemmed
flowers being preferred.
Societies for the advancement of dress
reform for women have been established
in Sweden, Norway, Denmark aud Fin
land.
A Maine lady, whose hair has grown
to the extraordinary length of eight feet,
has refused an offer of $4,000 for her
tresses.
Queen Marguerite of Italy is writing a
book of fables, the sub jects of which
she has gathered from romances of the
dark ages.
A red or green corduroy jacket, with
a kilt skirt of serge of the same color,
furnishes pretty suit for boy of from
three to six years.
New bows of narrow ribbon for the
hair are fashioned to stand up in the
same trim and perky" fashion as the
bonnet trimming of the season.
Red with white polka dots makes very
pretty little house dresses for children,
and should be simply trimmed with
white soutache braid and pearl buttons.
Greens of the moss shades are very
fashionable for street wear, and after the
English fashion are very frequently
trimmed with passementerie beading of
jets.
Spanish kid gloves for evening wear
now have the monogram of the wearer
embroidered upon the back of the
wrist, in either black or colored silk or
gold.
Six young Swedish women are now
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three propose to be doctors, two are
studying mathematics, and one the hu-
manities.
Mrs Leland Stanford, of California,
is erecting IN Albany, n. y, home for
the aged poor and day nursery for
children of poor workingwomen as a
memorial to her parents.
Sets of beaded ornaments for the cor
sage, such as plastron cuffs, epaulettes,
and necklet are seen in all varieties and
coloring, and add mich to the effect of
beautiful house toilette.
Alpaca makes some very serviceable
house toilettes, which are attractive as
we'll and this fabric, which is said to be
on the high road to fashion, may be had
in great variety of shades.
Mrs. Caroline S. Brooks, whose model
of Iolanthe, beautifully executed in but
ter, attracted so m CHI attention at the
Centennial Exposition, is now sculptor
with studio in New York City.
The more fanciful the house costume
can be, the better and more stylish it is.
Two or more colors are introduced be-
sides lace garniture in form of q long
jabot down the sides of the skirt.
One of the newest fchus for evening
wear is in the form of a folded back col
lar, in picot- edged ribbon, the same
forming revers down the front of the
dress and bordering cascades of lace.
The first hospital for women and chill
dren IN Scotland, differed by medical
women, was opened last year in Edin-
burg by the Lord Provost of the city,
under the charge of DIR. Jex Blake.
Coarse mesh Brussels net is the most
elegant fabric for bridesmaids costumes,
and is usually made over a surah or silk
| foundation. The sleeves are made in
! long full puff reaching to the elbow.
A Mrs. Sawyer, employed i'll the patent
Office as a copyist, has so marked a re-
semblance to Mrs. Cleveland as to be
pointed out wherever she goes and often
to be mistaken for the Presidents bride.
Red cashmere makes the most popular
dresses for little girls from six to eleven
years. They are made with simple yoke
waist and full pulled sleeves; three or
four tucks are the only finish for the
skirt.
As q substitute for birds wings, a
leading English millinery establishment
is using side wings of silk to support the
Understanding bows of Grape, ribbon or
lace which form the principal trimming
of toques.
A linen collar still remains the suita-
BILE neckwear for use with tailor made
suit. Null lace, tulle, beads, surah.
crepe de chine, etc., begin to be utilized
more than formerly in a somewhat elab-
crate style of dressing the neck.
Large balls of jet beads are seen upon
the edges of some new nantes. These
would seem to materially add to the
weight of these garments, though the
new method of mounting jet upon cork
Obviates this effect in a measure.
Novel bonnets are made entirely of
ribbon, which is put on in rows around
the brim and in lengthwise rows around
the crown. High bows of two or more
kinds of ribbon. with long jet or gilt
pin thrust through them, are the usual
trimming, and the small, pointed poke
is the shape preferred for these bonnets.
Ermine is meeting with much favor
for children's uses, especially as trim
ming for cloaks of dark red, white, or
golden brown cloth. These cloaks have
short waists and full skirts, and with
them are worn ''top- heavy" hats of dark
felt, with wide brim and large crown,
with huge cluster of ostrich tips as
trimming.
Bodices of pain velvet continue to-
grow in popularity. They are usually
worn with skirts of velvet and satin, or
velvet and faille, in inch-wide stripes,
though skirts of plain satin or faille are
considered quite as elegant. Golden
brown, sapphire blue, green, terra-cotta
and heliotrope are the colors much ia
vored for these costumes.
Plain velvet is the material usually Sc
lected for dressy wraps. An example is
mantclet of black velvet, very short in
the back, but with the square ends in
front reaching nearly to the foot of the
dress skirt. The sling sleeves are striped
with beads, and lace and jet trim the
long fronts. A coqulle of lace forms a
| iabot, and knot of ribbon fastens the
| collar
Scared Soldiers Excuse.
| The Colonel of a New York regiment